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Churchill's Man of Mystery - Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Churchill's Man of Mystery - Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Government Official History Series
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The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton (1891-1971),
Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill
during World War II, is exposed for the first time in this study
based on full access to official records. After distinguished
service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to General Haig
during World War I, Morton worked for the Secret Intelligence
Service from 1919-1934, involved in fascinating operations against
Bolshevik Russia and a resurgent Germany. The fortunes of SIS in
the interwar years are described here in unprecedented detail. As
Director of the Industrial Intelligence Centre in the 1930s,
Morton's warnings of Germany's military and industrial preparations
for war were widely read in Whitehall, though they failed to
accelerate British rearmament as much as Morton-and
Churchill-considered imperative. Morton had met Churchill on the
Western Front in 1916 and supported him throughout the "wilderness
years," moving to Downing Street as the Prime Minister's
Intelligence adviser in May 1940. There he remained in a liaison
role, with the intelligence Agencies and with Allied resistance
authorities, until the end of the war, when he became a
"troubleshooter" for the Treasury in a series of tricky
international assignments. Throughout Morton's career, myth, rumor
and deliberate obfuscation have created a misleading picture of his
role and influence. The story of this "man of mystery" shines a
light into many hitherto shadowy corners of British history in the
first half of the 20th century. This book will be of great interest
to scholars and informed lay readers with an interest in World War
II, intelligence studies and the life of Winston Churchill.
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